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The definition traces the expression to depictions of Death wielding a scythe and provides historical attestations from authors and publications spanning from the 14th century to the late 20th century. It also includes related word-history material for “scythe” and uses literary quotations to show how “sithe/scythe” developed and how Death or Time is described as mowing or cutting down life.","Oxford English Dictionary Online (OUP 2005, 2nd ed. 1989)  \nreaper  \nb. fig. the (Great, Grim, Old) Reaper: Death personified.  \nThe expression arises from the iconographic portrayal of Death wielding a scythe: cf. SCYTHE n. 2.  \n1839 LONGFELLOW in Baltimore Lit. Monument May 17/1 O, not in cruelty, not in wrath, The reaper came that day. 1931 N. & Q. 5 Sept. 180/2 One is startled by the inroads which the great reaper has made in the ranks ofthe Knights since the 15th Edition. 1940 A. UPFIELD Bushranger of Skies xiv. 161 That he happened to be the seventh son of a seventh son..was [said..to](said..to) account for his escapes from The Reaper. 1976 R. LEWIS Witness my Death v. 182 The old house had been silent, waiting with him for the Old Reaper to come again. 1977 New Statesman 2 Sept. 304/1 The Grim Reaper has been rather too vigorously at work among us... At least ten of the best have gone.  \nscythe, n.  \n(sa) Forms:  . 1 sidi, sie, 3-6 sye, 4-7 sith, 5 cithe,(sythy), 5-6 cythe, 6 syith, 6-7 syth, sieth, 7 siethe, seith, sight, syeth, 3-9 sythe, 4-9 sithe;  . 5 seth, 7 saith;  . 7 scith, scithe, 7-scythe. [OE. síemasc., earlier *sii (written sidi in Epinal Gl.) = LG. seged, seid, sicht, ON. sig-r (mod.Icel. sig fem.,  \nNorw. sigd, sigde, sidde masc.):OTeut. *segi jo-z, f. root *seg-to cut, whence the synonymous OS. segisna (MLG., MDu. seisene, Du. zeisen, zeis), OHG. segansa (MHG. segense, seinse, G. sense) . The etymologically correct spelling sithe was preferred by Johnson, but his authority has not prevailed against the currency of the spelling with sc, due to erroneous association with L. scindere to cut. Cf. scissors.]  \n2. transf. and fig., [esp. as](esp. as) the attribute of Time or Death.  \n1387-8 T. USK Test. Love I. Prol. 99 Sithen al the grettest clerkes..with their sharpe sythes of conning almowen and mad therof grete rekes and noble. 1506 Kal. Sheph. (Sommer) 90 They fyght and cose on eche other wonder with the sythe of deuyls dredabyll. c1600 SHAKES. Sonn. xii, And nothing gainst Times sieth can make defence Saue [etc.] . 1659 T. PECKE Parnassi Puerp. 112 Time devours Things; His Sithe our Legs will hit. a1711 KEN Hymnotheo Poet. Wks. 1721 III. 185 See how Death preys on humane Race; Out with his Scythe the Tyrant goes, Great Multitudes at once he mows. 1809 BYRON Bards & Rev. 632 Whet not your scythe, suppressors of our vice! Reforming saints! 1854 BREWSTER More Worlds i. 16 The swarm of human life..has never been perceptibly reduced by the scythe of famine, of pestilence, or of war. 1883 O. W. 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